This wiki page supports the 5th grade Common Core State Standards Unit One. This four-week unit allows students to experiment with language and words. The essential questions is "Why (and how) do we play with language?
Literacy Boxes- Each student gets a literacy box at the beginning of the year- Inside the box, they put their reading response journal, literacy circle book, and independept reading book. When we are doing literacy, the students bring the box to their desk
Unit One Map
Similies
http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n25.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-similes-list.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simile.html
http://www.poetryteachers.com/poetclass/lessons/teachsimiles.html
Metaphors
http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/metaphorterm.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphor.html
http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/spoon/metaphors.php
Alliteration
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/about-alliteration-responding-literature-825.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliteration.html
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/alliteration.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/alliteration-around-849.html
Onomatopoeia
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/onomatopoeia-figurative-language-minilesson-909.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/omomatopoea.html
http://www.examples-of-onomatopoeia.com/examples/onomatopoeia.php?a=1
http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/onomatopoeia-word-list/
Spoonerisms
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/spoonerisms.htm
Guide to Literary Terms
http://www.enotes.com/literary-terms/aphorism
Writing Poetry Like Pros
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/writing-poetry-pros#sect-introduction
Funny Poetry
http://www.poetry4kids.com/
http://gigglepoetry.com/
The Echoing Green
http://www.portablepoetry.com/poems/william_blake/the_echoing_green.html
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
http://ace.home.xs4all.nl/Literaria/Txt-Dahl.html
Eletelephony
http://www.storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/eletelephony.htm
My Shadow
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171951
Elizabeth Blackwell
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/elizabeth-blackwell-became-first-20402.html
Biographies for Children
http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people.asp
Famous Scientists
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists.html
Similie and Metaphor Powerpoint
http://languagearts.pppst.com/similes.html
http://www.brainpop.com/
http://www.educationalrap.com/song/figurative-language.html
Teaching English Using Cartoons
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/language-assistant/teaching-tips/using-cartoons-comic-strips
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/images/Fifth/c2%20calvin%20and%20hobbes%20lesson.pdf
Biopoems
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/poembio.htm
Word Origins
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0907017.html
Spelling Patterns
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/spelling-patterns-fish-card-1046.html
Unit One Reading Response Journal
Idiom Examples
Text Structure Powerpoint
Literacy Devices
UNIT LAYOUT
Non Fiction Text Features
Character Traits
WE ARE THE SHIP RESEARCH
Mentor Texts:
IMPORTANT VS. INTERESTING INFORMATION
Poetry Response Outline
Poetry Response (Journal)
Beginning of the year set up:
CCSS Portfolio set ups
Literacy Boxes- Each student gets a literacy box at the beginning of the year- Inside the box, they put their reading response journal, literacy circle book, and independept reading book. When we are doing literacy, the students bring the box to their desk
Common Core Unit One Anchor Books